On linkage bias-correction for estimators using iterated bootstraps
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| author | Tam, Siu-Ming Wang, Min Rambaldi, Alicia Tao, Dehua |
| author_facet | Tam, Siu-Ming Wang, Min Rambaldi, Alicia Tao, Dehua |
| contents | By amalgamating data from disparate sources, the resulting integrated dataset becomes a valuable resource for statistical analysis. In probabilistic record linkage, the effectiveness of such integration relies on the availability of linkage variables free from errors. Where this is lacking, the linked data set would suffer from linkage errors and the resultant analyses, linkage bias. This paper proposes a methodology leveraging the bootstrap technique to devise linkage bias-corrected estimators. Additionally, it introduces a test to assess whether increasing the number of bootstrap iterations meaningfully reduces linkage bias or merely inflates variance without further improving accuracy. An application of these methodologies is demonstrated through the analysis of a simulated dataset featuring hormone information, along with a dataset obtained from linking two data sets from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' labour mobility surveys. |
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| spellingShingle | On linkage bias-correction for estimators using iterated bootstraps Tam, Siu-Ming Wang, Min Rambaldi, Alicia Tao, Dehua Methodology By amalgamating data from disparate sources, the resulting integrated dataset becomes a valuable resource for statistical analysis. In probabilistic record linkage, the effectiveness of such integration relies on the availability of linkage variables free from errors. Where this is lacking, the linked data set would suffer from linkage errors and the resultant analyses, linkage bias. This paper proposes a methodology leveraging the bootstrap technique to devise linkage bias-corrected estimators. Additionally, it introduces a test to assess whether increasing the number of bootstrap iterations meaningfully reduces linkage bias or merely inflates variance without further improving accuracy. An application of these methodologies is demonstrated through the analysis of a simulated dataset featuring hormone information, along with a dataset obtained from linking two data sets from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' labour mobility surveys. |
| title | On linkage bias-correction for estimators using iterated bootstraps |
| topic | Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05004 |